Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Nathan, I like the image of you and the horses.? Sorry about the bad luck.? Sounds like the Danes have the medical situation well in hand. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 8/29/2017 11:50 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > I flew to my hometown Aarhus on Saturday morning to spend a few days with > my best friend Lars, cycling, enjoying life, and taking in art during the > Aarhus Festival Week going on right now. The cycling cornerstone of the > trip was a 300 km brevet we were riding on Sunday. Alas, we are not > having luck with our brevets this year; back in April, when Lars was > visiting me and we were going to do a 400 km on Mallorca, he came down > with bronchitis and we had to abandon when he could not breathe on the > climbs. And this time an alergic reaction to some unknown Danish insect > did me in at the 132 km mark. But all is not lost. There are always > photos, and today I rode a very nice 90 km rute in glorious sunshine. > > I arrived on Saturday, and Lars and I walked to the supermarket for some > shopping. He lives smack in the centre of the old city, and everything is > walking distance. Around the corner from his apartment, we came across the > Carlsberg horses, used during the Festival Week: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-vnGvfhc/A > > The on Sunday at 8 a.m. we set out on our brevet. I had not trained > properly due to my knee injury and leg inflammation earlier in August, but > things were working out fine. > > We cycled through a bucolic Jutland landscape south of Aarhus: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-FbnLkWc/A > > At the second control, the 99 km mark, a hill west of Aarhus called > Himmelbjerget (?the heavenly mountain?, totally ridiculous given that it > is only about 150 m tall), I rewarded myself with a Danish classic: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-h4qmdH7/A > > At 132 km, we stopped at a supermarket to get coffee, and Lars noticed > that my lower lip was swelling rapidly; I had noticed some swelling (but > not the bite that gave rise to it), but now it was really growing. So Lars > called the local guard duty doctor, who said that with allergic reactions > on or around the face, there is a concern about them spreading to the > throat and impacting breathing, so he was going to send an ambulance to > take me to the hospital in a town called Viborg, about 50 km from Aarhus, > to have me checked. Here I am, packing the stuff that I was taking with me > to the hospital?the bicycles were left at the supermarket and picked up > later: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-rGcLDMs/A > > The ambulance and the doctor arrive; they gave me some drugs intravenously > and did some tests already during the 20-minute drive to the hospital: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-sv27fRL/A > > At the hospital, and not pleased with the situation: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-VWXb8T9/A > > But my face sure did not look pretty: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-c443pQ8/A > > It all ended well, though, and after some additional tests and drugs I was > discharged with some additional medications to take during the next 3 > days. Meanwhile, Lars with the help of his brother, went back to Aarhus, > got his car, and came back to pick up the bikes and then me. By 9 p.m. we > were back in Aarhus. > > The experience with both the ambulance crew and the hospital staff was > excellent: competence and friendliness are the two words that come to > mind. And despite the fact that I am not in the Danish health insurance > system (I am a Danish citizen but I do not live here), the issue of > payment or insurance was never even mentioned. It simply did not exist for > the doctors and nurses who treated me. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >